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The Filing Cabinet

"The Filing Cabinet," which covers compliance with the Dodd-Frank Act and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, as well as other regulatory action from the Securities and Exchange Commission, executive compensation, and shareholder activism, is written by CW staff writer Joe Mont. Mont welcomes questions, comments, and statements from readers on SEC filing matters and will address them here when appropriate. Readers can contact him at joe.mont@complianceweek.com.

The SEC says it will not issue a proposal requiring oil gas, and mining companies to disclose payments made to governments until spring of 2016. “We’re surprised and disappointed that the SEC would push back its timeline yet again,” said Ian Gary, senior policy manager, extractive industries for Oxfam America, which previously sued the SEC for “unlawfully withholding” the final rule. More inside.

Oxfam America has fired its latest legal broadside against the SEC, filing a brief in court saying the agency cannot re-arrange deadlines on Dodd-Frank Act rulemaking no matter how busy it might be. The two sides are in a legal tussle over when the SEC will issue a rule on disclosure of payments mining companies make to foreign governments. Details inside.

The deadline demanded by Oxfam America for a final rule requiring oil, gas, and mining companies to disclose payments made to foreign governments is “unachievable,” the SEC said in a recent legal brief. The brief is the Commission’s final word in a lawsuit Oxfam America filed in 2014 over delays in promulgating the Dodd-Frank Act requirement. More inside.